From Rape to Robbery: Accused Killers Changed Their Story
Nightmare on Hickory Street, Part 2: When questioned by detectives, suspects in the double murder told stories of stopping a rape, but later admitted to a robbery that ended in death, police said.
While stories told by the four charged with the Hickory Street double murder differ, with the alleged killers not only contradicting each other but also themselves, it appears Bethany McKee was friends with Terrance Rankins and invited him to Alisa Massaro’s home the night of Jan. 9.
A resident of Shorewood, where she lived with her parents and siblings, McKee had been staying at the home of Massaro and Massaro’s father for a number of days.
Rankins arrived with his friend Eric Glover, who Massaro believed was his cousin. The two men were under the impression they were going to have sex with Massaro and McKee, she said, but after showing up, they settled in to drink, smoke marijuana and play video games.
Joshua Miner told Joliet Police McKee invited Rankins and Glover over with instructions to “bring booze and weed.” They showed up about 10 p.m., played Grand Theft Auto and drank, a police report states.
Miner reportedly told police he was on the floor with Massaro and McKee was on a bed fooling around with the “bald” guest, Rankins. McKee told him to stop, Miner said in a report, but Rankins pulled her pants off, prompting Miner to get up and say, “You f------ n-----, get off her.”
“Miner then punched him in the side of the head,” a report said.
In the ensuing fight, Miner choked Rankins until he went limp, according to the police report. While Miner and Rankins were grappling, Glover kicked Miner in the head, according to the police report, and Adam Landerman then grabbed Glover and choked him to death as well.
Miner reportedly told police Landerman jumped on the backs of the dead men.
“Miner described Landerman’s actions as surfing on the bodies,” and told how “they released a gasp of air, and possibly feces as well, as he stated it smelled,” according to a report.
Landerman reportedly told police he helped Miner “hog tie” one of the dead men with dirty laundry in case he came to, then “heard a gasp or "zombie noise" from the victim and then didn’t hear anything else from the victim. He realized then the man had been killed.”
McKee and Massaro had departed before the violence started, the reports said, and when they returned were afraid the bodies “would reach out and grab them. (Landerman) stated that at this point, both of the individuals were hog-tied, one with cloth material and the other with an extension cord.”
The officers first sent to the Hickory Street house to investigate a report of two dead men inside entered through the open front door and met Massaro. She told officers there were two people in her house: Miner upstairs and Landerman down in the basement.
Officers checked the basement and saw no one, a report said, but did hear Miner calling for them to come on up, that he was in the bedroom.
An officer wrote that he walked in and saw Miner “sitting on the couch smoking a cigarette. Miner made the statement, ‘I did the guy with the dreadlocks.’” That was Glover. Miner reportedly told the cops Landerman killed the other one. He claimed the man he killed was “trying to rape one of the girls,” a report said.
While the accused killers reportedly started with a story about an attempted rape, the police were apparently skeptical. For one thing, Miner couldn’t even keep straight which man he supposedly killed, according to reports. After questioning by police, the four conceded the plan was to rob Rankins and Glover.
Massaro reportedly told police McKee knew a man who sold drugs and “kept a lot of money on him.” Detectives asked her what she meant by a “lot of money,” and she “stated approximately $100.”
McKee called the man, who reports identified as Rankins, and he ended up bringing Glover along to Massaro’s house. After the men were dead, according to reports, Miner searched them for drugs and money. He took about $10 and “small baggies of weed” off Rankins, a report said, and found around $100 and cocaine in a front pocket of Glover’s pants.
What Should You Read Next?
- Nightmare on Hickory Street Part 1: Sex on the Bodies
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johnqpublic
12:29 pm on Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Made the mistake of reading this while eating my lunch. I Didn't do much damage to my lunch.
Watchful Eye
1:22 pm on Tuesday, February 26, 2013
You are disgusting. Why you feel the need to make jokes about 4 subhumans killing two other men is beyond me. You make me sick.
johnqpublic
2:26 pm on Wednesday, February 27, 2013
It's not supposed to be a joke, and yes disgusting is how I felt after reading this.
Sharon Grod
12:45 pm on Tuesday, February 26, 2013
These characters are evil!
Ange
1:09 pm on Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Really, I ask once again.... How were these Natural Born Killers Raised??? What sort of parents do these 4 have... Here's a question for Mr. Massaro - How the heck do you NOT have any idea of "What & Who" is in your home with your daughter & what is going on IN YOUR HOME with 3 other young adults in your own home-Two guys staying there and another girl-REALLY! Not even asking the question as to what& who is your daughter hanging around with. Let's not forget that Now two young men were taken from their families-Never to be seen or heard from again&all for what??? Money, Drugs, & Alcohol - Really... This is truly a "Nightmare on Hickory Street"!!! Now the latest is just too sick to even begin to imagine - Sex ontop of the 2-dead men... REALLY - What sort of people are you??? This question has to be raised? What sort of background did you grow in, what the heck were you exposed to at such an age that it made you take part in this Horrific Act of taking another human's life... Those two men were literally handed their DEATH by hands of TRUE NATURAL BORN KILLERS... These Girls knew everything-they had worked on a plan-luring them to the home, pretending that they wanted to have sex just to set the stage-Strangulation and a senseless killing for less than $100.00 - All Four of them need to be handed the sentence of DEATH-because life in jail is going to be too good for These NATURAL BORN KILLERS....Living for these NATURAL BORN KILLERS is just not an option...
Watchful Eye
1:25 pm on Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Yes, I wonder too, and agree with your comment. Is it drugs or uncontrolled mental instability? What makes these young minds slip into a place so dark, they have no regard for other human life, themselves, or their families. How does it get this bad?
Troy boy
1:31 pm on Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Ok two drug dealers were killed .. What's the problem here ?
Bobby P
7:52 pm on Saturday, March 2, 2013
You are an idiot. Seriously you sicken me with your comment. Pathetic keyboard warrior. I would love to get a chance to see you say that to anyone in person. Sick
Droncz87
2:03 pm on Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Who would want to have relations with that fat pig Mckee?
nina
1:21 pm on Friday, March 15, 2013
what does her weight have to do with anything, theres someone for everybody. my point, youre mother had u right.
Troy boy
3:06 pm on Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Courtney just grab your razor and go back into your closet and cut yourself some more you fake emo skank . No one believes you knew these guys so stop lying . They were black drug dealers and not Jehovah's witnesses going from door to door . Those people did the planet a favor by decaffeinating those two sacks of poo
Bobby P
7:55 pm on Saturday, March 2, 2013
Troy boy I find you to be about as sick as these 4 weirdos. Keyboard troll warrior. I am white and feel terrible that you breath the same air as me. Pathetic. Seriously man pathetic.
GlockG22Shoots40s
3:43 pm on Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Talk about inconsistancies... first they kill one of them because he's trying to rape an ugly slut, then the girls were not there when the violence started... yeah, uh, I don't believe anything these pieces of shit say... fry them all.
Kr
4:13 pm on Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Wow Troy boy... Boy is right! Grow up!!! What did the whole black race do to you personally? And let me guess... You going to think that I'm black also cause you just know it all right??!!
jake range
4:43 pm on Tuesday, February 26, 2013
I played ball with Eric and I by no means will tell u he was a perfect law abiding citizen but he wasnt a monster and would not need to rape to get pleasure. just read the report, it is very clear this is a made up story to look as self defense. the big girl mentioned nothing about rape and the small one said she wanted to have sex on dead bodies before they even got there. Eric was a strong wrestler all throughout highschool that little guy couldnt choke him out like that story claims he did. The truth will come out and there is no justice this world can bring to these people. justice will be served when our lord and savior returns
Mark Donahue
8:02 pm on Tuesday, February 26, 2013
"...when our lord and savior returns"
hahahahahahahahahahahaha
Are you for real?
hahahahahahahaha
Daffy
5:14 pm on Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Everyone relax, someone is tracking Troy boy's IP address. We will have an address for him soon.
Colt45
5:16 pm on Tuesday, February 26, 2013
It's a sick story, but you just wait, there will be more to come. I belive the story is deeper than we know. Oh, and I called it, these 4 killers are turning on each other. McKee to save her ass, she will rat everyone out. They will turn on each other like the animals they are.
savageyouth
5:29 pm on Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Glad the second part of this article tells the "real story" instead of sensational fabrications (sex on the bodies!) the Joliet Police coaxed out of borderline mentally retarded young woman (McKee). This is a horrible crime. All four of the accused obviously played a role in it (some more than others) and they're going to go away for a long time. But this was clearly a drug-related robbery/homicide and not some satanic, necrophilic orgy murder. I just hope our community can start focusing on the real causes of crimes like this (drug abuse, poverty, hypersegregation) instead of the bs hyperbolic ones (video games, Insane Clown Posse, godlessness).
industrial painter local 33
1:54 pm on Thursday, February 28, 2013
I AGREE 100% SAVAGEYOUTH
jimmy
5:38 pm on Tuesday, February 26, 2013
These guys failed to realize that they will be outnumbered 10 to 1 in prison. That one jackass is going to have his ears tugged on everyday when he is blowing the brothers for some cigarettes. Karma truly is a bitch
industrial painter local 33
1:56 pm on Thursday, February 28, 2013
THEY WILL BE IN P.C. THE WHOLE TIME.NO ONE WILL DO SHIT TO THEM.NO ONE CAN GET TO THEME.BUT P.C. IS A TERRIBLE WAY TO DO YOUR TIME.BOARING AS HELL
Rob
7:40 pm on Tuesday, February 26, 2013
I would be willing to bet that my dog has a higher IQ then all four of these losers combined. Their pictures are in the dictionary under stupid white trash. The next time he has sex with two black guys he will be the one on the bottom.
black butterfly98
9:30 pm on Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Troy boy must b related to one of these sick individuals..Because some if his comments sure sound like it, unless he sick mined his self
Courtney Simmons
9:55 pm on Tuesday, February 26, 2013
very true he probably is.
Keyshia Wess
12:07 am on Wednesday, February 27, 2013
This is hard to digest. I have a? Bethany McKee claimed that she stayed several nights at Alisa Massaro's house. Where in the hell was Massaro's father. They claim that they tried to keep Joshua away from Alisa. If that were true why was Joshua there. To me this seems to be premeditated. They planned this. They knew what their intensions were. Why would they want to supposedly rape someone when they both had girlfriends. I'm Just Saying!!!
Keyshia Wess
12:08 am on Wednesday, February 27, 2013
ERIC & TERRANCE REST IN PEACE.
Keyshia Wess
12:25 am on Wednesday, February 27, 2013
This just upsets me because everyone seems to think that Eric & Terrance were drug dealers and they weren't. Just because a black man has money that doesn't make him a thug or a drug dealer. That's like saying every white man is ice head and a bum and that's not true. To have sex with or on a deceased person is inhumane,disgusting and just wrong. I in my opinion that Joshua miner coerced them into doing this. Knowing his sick and demented past I wouldn't be surprised. Now reading all these articles they said that in one article McKee had left and massaro left too. So where are these cellphones that unaccounted for
industrial painter local 33
2:02 pm on Thursday, February 28, 2013
SORRY TO BREAK THE BAD NEWS TO YOU,BUT JUST BECAUSE YOU LOVED THEM AND THEY DIDNT SELL DRUGS TO YOU DOES NOT MEAN THEY WERE NOT DRUG DEALERS,CAUSE YES, THEY WERE THERE TO DO JUST THAT.THEY DID NOT DESERVE THIS AT ALL ,BUT LETS KEEP IT REAL IT IS WHAT IT IS.THESE 4 R SUM SICK SON OF A Bs
Keyshia Wess
12:34 am on Wednesday, February 27, 2013
It just gets to me when people use the N word freely with no regard. But what people have failed to realize that in the dictionary it states that it's an ignorant person. So I guess every race is 1.
mark jones
6:57 am on Wednesday, February 27, 2013
how does any one know if they were drug dealers , were hearing the story of 4 ppl who stayed in a house with dead bodies , probably high , they deserve what the got coming
Colette Revels
7:38 am on Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Where are the mothers of these sick animals espically the cop
Dawn
8:42 am on Wednesday, February 27, 2013
From another article it stated that Massaro's father was asleep in the basement while this all took place. When the police show up they look in the basement but don't see anyone because Landerman was hiding. When did the father leave the basement and where did he go?
Breal
11:33 am on Wednesday, February 27, 2013
suspect
Tina
9:12 am on Wednesday, February 27, 2013
I find it hard to believe that Eric could be strangled by Landerman. He was a lot bigger and a football player. Noway that skinny psycho did that by himself. And all those vile comments by Troy should be taken off here. Having an opinion is one thing but those comments are just ignorant and disgusting.
Breal
11:32 am on Wednesday, February 27, 2013
A drug dealer? Please...
Troy apparently lives in a box or I should say in the 1900s. He has no clue of reality unless its reality tv shows. I myself dont condone any kind of violence no matter who are what the person is. these kids who did this are sick and need help or I should say need Jesus!
Angel39
5:52 pm on Wednesday, February 27, 2013
My son was not a drug dealer u dum a--
Angel39
5:59 pm on Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Troy boy no what u talking about my son Eric was not a drug dealer u dum a-- no what u talking about u dum a--
Angel39
6:05 pm on Wednesday, February 27, 2013
R u talking s--- let me tell u something no but he wasn't a drug dealer I tell u that u f--- face its fools like u they don't no nothing he change I his life around them fools trying to change the store in fools like u believe it that's funny
Angel39
6:12 pm on Wednesday, February 27, 2013
U better not never talk about my son freedom of speech is gone for fools like u
OnALighterNote
7:36 pm on Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Oh... the things we don't know about the people we are related to...
The things we don't know that actually happened...
The things that these kids endured as they grew...
The things they don't know about each other...
The facts we don't have, but we sure have opinions...
Assumptions are plaguing this story...
If only you all would remember one thing...
You sound stupid manipulating the story.
Stop assuming you know anything at all. Stop judging from any side of this gruesome crime. You don't know the actual evidence that does or does not exist, so the more you assume, judge, persecute and spout hateful spiteful things full of revenge or attempting to defend or prosecute, the dumber you make yourself look.
Concerned Citizen
11:13 am on Thursday, February 28, 2013
Such a sad story all around. Two people lost their lives and four others will loose their freedom which they do deserve. The action of one ignited the blaze with the others following suit. All it took is was sane person to put out the fire before it went roaring. I don't know these people nor their parents, but as a parent you talk with your children as they grow about the dangers out there in the world. The first lesson being about other people who may want to cause harm to little kids. As they get a little older, you talk to them about the dangers of drugs with the hopes they will keep to their promise and will never try them. You discuss with them about respecting and talking to others in the same manner they expect to be treated. The list of parent discussions just goes on and on. You HOPE they will INSTILL these lessons in THEMSELVES, so you know you were succesful at your job. As a parent figure of a young adult child, you should know how much freedom to give that adult child in your home. If you have any idea your child is mixed up in drugs or hangs out with the wrong crowd, YOU should not be leaving the job site. If you no longer know who your young adult child is hanging out with and/or think they are a carefree wild child, you should not be leaving this TYPE of a young adult to run fancy free in your home. As a parent, I feel for the parents of these young adults who were part of this horrific story deceased and alive.
Wendell
2:45 pm on Thursday, February 28, 2013
"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't exist!! And like that, he's gone!!" The murders of Terrance and Eric is the work of the devil, and he's doing the disappearing act by making this a hate crime, got white people saying very hateful things about the victims to get a reaction from black people. This was a demonic killing people!! so can we as a people, out of respect for the families of the victims, can we all cool out with the racial taunts at each other??? This is the day and time when the world, especially Illinois need to embrace our kids of all races, and pray!! If you keep up current events, victims and suspects are getting younger and younger!! Be Blessed everyone!!!
Bobby P
8:00 pm on Saturday, March 2, 2013
The reason we are not getting the real story is one of the offenders mom is a joliet cop. If that was not the case we would have much more info. FACT!
Henry Lowery
6:40 am on Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Mat 24:12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
adultpower
4:29 am on Friday, March 15, 2013
No way that dork strangled soneone to death...and who would have sex with either of those two pigs?? Only a black guy
nina
1:11 pm on Friday, March 15, 2013
first learn how to spell. (someone) why only a black guy
joseph
4:05 pm on Friday, March 15, 2013
holy shyt this niggah josh is my homie and wrappy on my residential burglary case i just got out yesterday he got out august we were just kikn then at shawnee
joseph
4:06 pm on Friday, March 15, 2013
crazy
lasha traylor
5:49 pm on Friday, March 22, 2013
To all who reads this who wants to take some sex from white trash!!! All the kids looked like trash nasty,nasty hey dummies your parent is the police you could have called her but you took the law in your own hands you should NEVER see the light of day we have young black men in prison 4 life for drugs let all see what they get 4 there crime !! Why should they get special treatment for murder put them in with all of the other inmates those 2 men had no choice about there life why the law care about these young people life let them fight 4 there life everyday at least they have a life put them in general population so they can feel fear like Eric and Terrance when they choked the life out of them let them see fear for the rest of there life to the mothers and also the fathers of both victims my prayers and heart goes to you !!
Satan
4:55 pm on Friday, April 5, 2013
I was locked up with josh in juvee and I can tell you for a pure fact he did not do this that kid would not hurt a fly! We would tease him about why his cop mom couldn't get him out he was alright but weird and I always thought he might of been gay, but in all honesty he was a sissy and 1 of those guys played football and the other a wrestler and both black monkeys he would never try that would get his butt whipped! Media is making this story up news must be slow anyone doesn't believe me I have pics of the kid from a cell phone my girl snuck in to me he is playing cards in both the pics I have.
Satan
4:56 pm on Friday, April 5, 2013
P.s. free josh!!!!!!!!!!
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